Should I complain about this commisioner decision in FFL league?
 

$100 buyin 12-team league.

This year, we added a rule that teams cannot have more than 4 each RB and WR on roster.

League is on CBS, and setting was turned on to allow no more than 4 RB/WR. The thing is, CBS still allows pickups to go over roster limit. But then it treats it as an invalid lineup (even if the starters are valid), and makes the team lose by forfeit.

So midweek, 3 teams made pickups that put them over RB/WR limit. Commisioner sent a mail to everyone pointing out that this was not allowed. One team dropped players to correct problem. Two teams did not drop players. So they had illegal lineups and were set to lose by forfeit. This morning, commish sends an email saying that he rolled back the pickups and reset the offending teams' lineups to whatever they had for week 1.

I was set to win by forfeit. Now I am pretty likely to lose (if Hines Ward gets 5 FP tonight). Should I complain, or let it go?

Re: Should I complain about this commisioner decision in FFL league?
 

How can you complain if the lineups were set to what they were before the offending actions?

It seems you want to win by technicality.

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I can complain because the players didn't correct the problem themselves. There was no bug in the software, the rules were established weeks ago, they got a warning a couple days in advance -- but they still submitted illegal lineups.

Re: Should I complain about this commisioner decision in FFL league?
 

Do you really want to win on a technicality?

Draft better.

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I think you should win by forfeit, but then I'm a nit.

If guys are putting up $100 and then can't follow the rules, well then then they are getting what they deserve.

Re: Should I complain about this commisioner decision in FFL league?
 

I think you should be disqualified from OOT for posting this in the wrong forum.

NT

Re: Should I complain about this commisioner decision in FFL league?
 

This post brings up a lot of questions...

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Post this in the sports forum, but it sounds like your commissioner needs to learn it is his job to enforce the rules, not to change everyone's line-up.

Re: Should I complain about this commisioner decision in FFL league?
 

Sorry about the wrong forum. I didn't really think it was that sports related. More of a ethics / help me not suck at life type question. Which are pervasive in OOT.

Re: Should I complain about this commisioner decision in FFL league?
 

isn't this just a for-fun league, or is $100 a lot to most of you guys?

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isn't this just a for-fun league, or is $100 a lot to most of you guys?

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Meh I dunno. I don't think many of the people are gamblors, so the stakes are probably reasonably serious for them. On the other hand, these are adults with normal jobs, not broke college kids...

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I think you should win by forfeit, but then I'm a nit.

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Especially considering they received the courtesy warning e-mail.

Also, they could have had a advantage by keeping those players from other teams, while waiting for any updates on injuries, who is getting the most carries, etc. before dropping the extras.

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1) You should not complain when this gets moved to Sporting Events

2) You want bad. My league, the only person with veto power over trades is the commissioner and there seems to be no set time period for people to complain. So on Saturday, the commissioner trades Plaxico Burress away to get Marvin Harrison. And there's no way to protest the trade, because as soon as it is offered to him, he accepts both as the team invovled and as the commissioner.

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...so on the river villain showed the fullhouse which beat my flush, but then flipped it over and turned it in the muck. Shouldn't I get the pot because he didn't table his hand?

Stop being a nit.

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I don't have any sympathy for the guys who couldn't be bothered to fix their lineups, despite getting the warning emails. Unfortunately, there's always one or two people like this in every fantasy league. The trick is having a strong commissioner that puts his foot down to penalize guys like this.

Unfortunately, since you have the most to gain by these guys losing by forfeit, your complaints to the league will come off as self-centred whining. It's too bad that nobody else in your league seems to want to step up to complain as well.

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I think you should win by forfeit, but then I'm a nit.

If guys are putting up $100 and then can't follow the rules, well then then they are getting what they deserve.

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Re: Should I complain about this commisioner decision in FFL league?
 

I assume you only start 2 WR with no RB/WR or TE/WR flex? Cos if it's 3 or you have flexes, like on Yahoo, no way WR should be capped a 4.